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Dan Mayes Senior Vice President Management & Analytics, Offerpad “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” John F. Kennedy Over the past decade, we’ve seen consumerization have an incredible impact on everything from devices to services. In that very short… Read more

Suzanne Kinney President & CEO, NAIOP Arizona The Internet. Big data. Virtual reality. Machine learning. Blockchain. Crowdfunding In the past, these technology terms were not part of the vernacular in the commercial real estate (CRE) community. How times have changed. With the quickening pace of innovation and the growing sophistication of investors and occupants,… Read more

Javier Benson Senior Vice President, RealtyShares Real estate crowdfunding has had an effect in cities of all sizes throughout the nation by harnessing technology to reshape project financing. With networks of individual and institutional investors, these marketplace investing companies can offer flexible capital far faster than traditional sources. From a wealth-building perspective, real estate… Read more

Sarah Richardson Designated Broker, Tru Realty Residential real estate has experienced a significant amount of change this past decade. There have been seismic shifts in the brokerage landscape, a historic economic upheaval, new rules for title and added scrutiny to the lending process. We, as industry insiders see these changes firsthand every day. As… Read more

Paul Ohanian Founder & CEO, Scottsdale Wealth Planning Inc. I have been watching the sharp rise in the market value of bitcoins over past months with cautious curiosity and the intense media coverage and public reaction with great interest. While cryptocurrencies have historically held niche appeal with digital enthusiasts and people who believe the… Read more

Mark Stapp Fred E. Taylor Professor of Real Estate and Executive Director, Masters of Real Estate Development, Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” R. Buckminster Fuller The impact of technological… Read more

Tricia Covert Publisher, Arizona Journal of Real Estate & Business As a lead-in to 2018, the first two Journal issues of the year are dedicated to an important topic: technology. The type of technology is not the latest app or gadget new to the market, but a shift that is proposed to change how… Read more

Christopher J. Charles, Esq. Philip A. Overcash, Esq. When it comes to real estate transactions, more often than naught, the “devil” is in the details. The Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, recently provided a roadmap to the rules concerning the specificity of an agreement required to obtain specific performance of an option… Read more

David Allen PARTNER, JAYBURG WILK If you ask most people what it means to be “fraudulently induced” to enter into a contract, they will likely respond that it means that they were lied to. But while it true that being told something that is not true is one of the elements of fraud, each… Read more

Fletcher Wilcox Founder, Wilcox Report The next time the U.S. Census Bureau releases population data, I predict Maricopa County will be the number one county in the United States for overall population increase for a second year in a row – and number one in the sub category of net domestic migration. In the… Read more